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the tablelands
a vignette
Mar 5
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February 2024
on four different ways to lie to yourself
This semester I have been co-teaching a class on ancient and modern accounts of science. I have asked the students to consider the physicists…
Feb 13
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January 2024
Should you go to graduate school?
The question recurs online with significant regularity. The recurrence is regular and significant because academics (former grad students…
Jan 25
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Should you go to graduate school?
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Turning 40
and thinking about it with Kierkegaard
Jan 18
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December 2023
prying open tautologies
My sister-in-law once had a cat named Harry. Harry was a prize Persian, belonging to her landlady, a cat breeder. Harry had an impeccable pedigree—one…
Dec 14, 2023
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how I made friends in my thirties
now unpaywalled at the The Hedgehog
Dec 1, 2023
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November 2023
dramatic failures of self-understanding
Last summer I had a dream that a friend walked up to me, stood unusually close, placed a hand on my shoulder and said: “Matty, you’re a mess!” In the…
Nov 23, 2023
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How I made friends in my thirties
I have a new “note” in the The Hedgehog Review. I think it’s paywalled, but The Hedgehog is, for my actual money, one of the best little magazines out…
Nov 1, 2023
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October 2023
why Matty can't read
on the screen, that is
Oct 24, 2023
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September 2023
At the Heaven and Hell Cotillion
Rushmore, cliches, and growing up
Sep 25, 2023
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Fart the Ferret's Morning Routine
My fourth daughter, Rachel, was born on the second-last day of 2018. She subsequently did not sleep for more than two hours in a row until halfway…
Sep 20, 2023
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What I did on my summer vacation
This is something a little bit different: a report on what I did this summer. So, it’s a new academic year. The chutzpah involved in asserting that a…
Sep 5, 2023
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